"their purposes are entirely opaque to me, as are the purposes of so many others"April 4, 2012 12:10 PMSubscribe

"their purposes are entirely opaque to me, as are the purposes of so many others" was the first (eerily self-descriptive) 'card' I got in Strategies, a bot in the tradition of Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies but with most content fed from horse_ebooks. Although, I think that is a quote from a terrifying Cronenberg student film, Crimes of the Future. The 'purpose' of this bot, according to the description is "for use when you're lacking inspiration, or make your own game of it."posted by aretesophist (25 comments total)
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So, far only about a quarter of what I'm seeing could be considered aligned with the intent of Oblique Strategies, but that doesn't make them any less useful. I'm off to exercise glands I never knew existed.posted by Burhanistan at 12:18 PM on April 4, 2012 [2 favorites]

There was some amusing discussion of a MeFi-based Oblique Strategies deck in MetaTalk a little while ago.

FWIW, this discussion is still going on in my own mind almost constantly. I keep threatening to myself that I'll just start culling comments from Mefites and putting them in a spreadsheet for the next 6 months or so and then secretly create my own deck of cards which I may or may not share with anybody else.posted by Doleful Creature at 2:27 PM on April 4, 2012 [1 favorite]

you can't put shit on syrup and call it pancakes

Huh, I guess that's true, you can't...wait, what?? Have I been operating pancakes improperly ALL MY LIFE?

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